I myself find it hard to play in a regular group, my playing times vary
from week to week, usually depending on when my girlfriend is at work =)
I work 9-5 and unless she is working when I am at home I cannot play (she
hates EQ). Therefore I am joining pickup groups and dieing more than I
probably would if I had a regular group.
I find it annoying that we don't get bind affinity, mainly because we are
the weakest of all melee classes, however we are one of the bes classes at
agro'ing mobs onto us, I think Verant should consider either giving bards
bind affinity OR, give us a song that allows us to Feing Death, monks are
very similar to bards, being weak (lack of AC & hp's), and they deal a hell
of a lotta dmg, so they tend to take alot of dmg, however they can just
feign death and they are fine, I rarely see a monk has been killed.
Verant say that having melee'ers bound outside a dungeon is unfair because
they can just get killed and zone back in and join in on the fight again,
this is not the case with bards, we have to mem songs (as we all know this
takes a good 5 minutes). And how are we gonna be any good unless we pick up
ALL of our equipment.
I find it an insult that when fighting in Cazic, Guk or the Sol's I have to
run all the way from Freeport or Arena just to get back to my corpse,
aswell as mem my songs and loose an hours worth of hard earned exp. To be
honest it is starting to **** me off and as I die about 5 times (at least)
every level this is wasting my valuable playing time, hence the reason I
have now started up a cleric, it's great, I get bind, gate etc and if I do
die, I'll only have to spend 20 seconds memming my spells. + at later
levels I'll be able to res myself =)
I enjoy playing my bard and have got to level 33 through alot of hard work,
I have great equipment for my level and am VERY keen to get to level 40+
but I jus can't see it happening, I don't know how you level 40+ bards on
this list do it. I spoke to a level 50 bard on my server (Tegamen, I
think), he was wearing some imbrued and had some great equipment. So I
asked him if he had any tips on how to level fast, he replied "Don't die" I
said that I find it very hard not to die, he replied "Trust me, Bards got
the bad deal"
Guess thats sums it all up then, I am still determined to reach level 50,
it'll just take me a few years =)
Madagan Songweaver, Bard of 33 Songs <Lords of Chaos>
Meklon, Level 7 Cleric of Innurok <Lords of chaos>
Veeshan Server
>>"Reece, Tom - 25IDL G4" <g4mntofcr@...>
>>
>>I agree. I usually find myself joining pickup groups. What I have found
is
>>that in pickup groups, players tend to look out for themselves before
>>considering the welfare of the party. To add salt to the wound, the
problem is
>>magnified because of the time I usually log on. I live in Hawaii so when
I play
>>its usually after midnight on the mainland on weeknights. When a pull
turns bad
>>and someone dies, especially if it is a melee class bound in a zone far
away,
>>the party usually either breaks up because its so late at night or the
casters
>>leave the group because it will take the melee class too long to get back
to the
>>zone they died in.
>>
>>I think its safe to say that Verant doesn't take situations like this
into
>>consideration when they have the mythical class balance tuning sessions.
I
>>think they just assume everyone has a regular group/guild that they play
with
>>all the time and as a result they are focused on group welfare vs
personal
>>welfare.
>>
>>Galtin of E'ci
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